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Regression approaches for Approximate Bayesian Computation [PDF]
, 2017 This book chapter introduces regression approaches and regression adjustment for Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC). Regression adjustment adjusts parameter values after rejection sampling in order to account for the imperfect match between ...
Blum, Michael GB
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor +12 more
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, 2009 Structural adjustment may sound technical, but refers to the comprehensive economic programs that the major international lenders require of developing countries when they are granted a loan. These structural adjustment programs – called SAPs - require liberalization of the economy so that markets can function more easily and the recipient countries ...
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Cyclophosphamide (CY) is associated with potentially fatal cardiotoxicity, yet no electrocardiographic indices have been established for early detection of CY‐induced cardiomyopathy. This study aimed to determine whether corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation can predict early onset of CY‐related cardiac dysfunction in pediatric ...
Junpei Kawamura +5 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser +6 more
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Improving Sweden's Automatic Pension Adjustment Mechanism [PDF]
The public pension world has seen two innovations in recent years. One is the emergence of notional defined contribution (NDC) plans. The other is the introduction of automatic adjustment mechanisms to help keep pension systems solvent when the economy ...
Nicholas Barr, Peter Diamond
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Do flexible goal adjustment and acceptance help preserve quality of life in patients with Multiple Sclerosis? [PDF]
, 2015 Background Goal regulation strategies such as flexible goal adjustment and acceptance are believed to be protective factors in persons with chronic illness, but research on their relative contributions to quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS) is ...
De Waegeneer, Annelies +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Neuroblastoma (NB) with central nervous system (CNS) metastases is rare at diagnosis, but occurs more often during relapse/progression. Patients with CNS metastases face a dismal prognosis, with no standardized curative treatment available.
Vicente Santa‐Maria Lopez +13 more
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STUDY ABOUT THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN ACCOUNTING FOR THE SOFTWARE PRODUCTS – ON THEIR PRODUCTION AND SALE FLUX [PDF]
Risk in Contemporary Economy, 2013 The modern economy can’t be conceived without the IT industry contribution, the engine of lasting economic development. In order to help the increase of software industry the countries create national strategies of information implementation, which will ...
Violeta Isai, Riana Iren Radu
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Geodesy and Cartography, 2011 Design engineers prefer working with actual ground distances. Therefore, the points of building site network should have the coordinates of the national grid system and the independent site grid system (“flat Earth”).
Vello Kala
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